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How Did Women's Groups within the American Library Association Promote Activism Around Women's Issues within Librarianship During the 1970s?

Cynthia Sue Ingold

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This talk provides an account of two pioneering women???s groups within the American Library Association, the Task Force on the Status of Women in Librarianship and the Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship, and shows how both groups worked to promote feminist activism within librarianship, thus bringing about change for women within the profession.

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This talk provides an account of two pioneering women???s groups within the American Library Association, the Task Force on the Status of Women in Librarianship and the Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship, and shows how both groups worked to promote feminist activism within librarianship, thus bringing about change for women within the profession.

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This talk provides an account of two pioneering women???s groups within the American Library Association, the Task Force on the Status of Women in Librarianship and the Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship, and shows how both groups worked to promote feminist activism within librarianship, thus bringing about change for women within the profession.

Key concepts: Association (psychology), Gender studies, Political science, Library science, Sociology, Psychology, Computer science, Psychotherapist

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